Box-Steffensmeier, Janet M.  1996.   "A Dynamic Analysis of the Role of War 
     Chests in Campaign Strategy".  American Journal of Political Science 
     40:XXX-XXX.

     This file contains instructions for replication of the analysis presented 
in Box-Steffensmeier (1996).  There are five files in this archive.
WARCHEST.ZIP is the PKZIP archive file containing the other four.  WARCHEST.DTA
contains the data used in the analysis in Stata 3.1 format; WARCHEST.ASC is
the same data in space-delimited ASCII format.  WARCHEST.LOG contains summary
statistics for the variables used here, as well as model commands for 
replication of the results presented in Table 2 using Stata 3.1.  Finally, 
README (this file) contains descriptions of the various files, as well as of 
the data used in the analysis.

     Data used in this analysis are drawn from the 397 House races in which
an incumbent ran for reelection in 1990.  These data are published by the
Federal Election Commission, and are available through the ICPSR.  The data 
contain seven variables:

CASEID: This variable contains a unique three- or four-digit identification 
    code for each of the 397 districts in the data.

TE: This is the dependent variable, and is equal to the number of weeks after
    January 1, 1989 when a challenger entered the race.  Races in which no
    challenger entered are coded as the number of weeks after January 1 
    when the state's primary filing deadline occured, and are treated as 
    censored (see CUT_HI, below).

EC: This variable is the incumbent's proportion of the major party vote in the
    1988 general election ("Prior Vote").

IV: This is the time-varying war chest variable ("War Chest").  It indicates, 
    in millions of dollars, the amount of money an incumbent has in reserve 
    to use at his or her discretion.

DEM: This is a dummy variable indicating an incumbent's political party ("Party").
    It is coded 1 when the incumbent is a Democrat, and 0 when he or she is a 
    Republican.

SOUTH: This variable is coded 1 if the incumbent represents a district located
    in the South, and 0 otherwise.

CUT_HI: This dummy variable is a censoring indicator.  For districts in which 
    a high-quality challenger entered, the variable is coded 1 for the period 
    in which that entery occirred, and 0 in other periods.  In districts in which
    no high-quality challenger emerged, the variable is coded 0 for all periods.



Please direct correspondence to:

                        Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier
                     Department of Political Science
                          Ohio State University
                        Columbus, OH  43210-1373
                    jboxstef@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
